Dr. Eberhart is an assistant professor of management at Santa Clara University and a research scholar at Stanford where he directs the Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship. He is also a visiting professor at Kobe University. His research focuses on theories of institutional change and role of institutions on new venture performance. He also studies comparative corporate governance of growth companies.

Dr. Eberhart's academic publications include topics such as new theoretical constructs on how institutional change has complex effects on new firms and entrepreneurs. He has won the BPS Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management and Best Paper Proceeding from the Academy of Management in 2012. From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Eberhart founded and led a successful Japanese start-up, WineInStyle.

He earned his Ph.D. in management science from Stanford University.